[matheusbn]

Quote: "After several phone and in-person interviews, the company flew him and his wife to their location, put them up in an expensive hotel, and conducted a final interview. However, in that interview he was finally introduced to the person who would be his immediate supervisor, someone twenty years younger. The next day, he was told that he was no longer a candidate."

Wait... they passed over all this to figure his age in person? His résumé hadn't age?

[lostcolony]

You don't put age on a resume.

You may leave out earlier projects and graduation date on a resume; even if you don't, speaking as someone who has interviewed, you don't really look at the years. "Oh, they worked at X, Y, and Z", not "Oh wow, they've been doing this professionally for twenty five years, they're at least in their mid 40s". Especially if it's a newish technology. This person has ten years of Javascript experience, two of that with Angular, awesome, we need a front end dev familiar with Angular. Holy crap, they're in their fifties; they just didn't list, or I didn't notice, all the non-relevant experience.

[matheusbn]

I see what you mean!

But in that case they should do a webcam interview first, before make someone move around (even it's paid) to see he "doesn't" fit the "requirements".

[lostcolony]

Well, he wasn't moving, yet. Just he and his wife were flown out for the interview; his wife was included so they could take a day or so to go look for rental properties for the short term, I am guessing.

[kelukelugames]

I don't doubt discrimination against age exists, but it's wrong to automatically assume it's the root cause for a rejection.

Maybe they had a stronger candidate? Maybe the interviewer overestimated his performance?